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I'm noi personally a sup porter of selective action. I don't think it's particularly effective in such a profound conflict as this But selective action has been upheld at the union conferences. left hasn't won that argument yet.

The way we in the West of Scotland are coping with the question escalation is first of all by democratising the dispute.

We are running a strike bulletin and week we'll be calling mass HICCLINCH of workplace representatives We're also linking up with other struggies - 111 particular Lee Jeans in Greenock where many of the Ministry of Defence workers come from.

There are units at Holy Loch, including the Clyde suomarine base which are vital maintenance of the nuclear warheads and the Tiger Fish torpedo.

The selective strikes there are putting these at risk - vital components have been turned away.

think that the threat that naval personnel would take over the jobs was made directiv bv the cabinet, but it looks as if they will be extremely cautious about doing it.

First, it would lead to total stoppage would be completely counter-productive and secondly the Navy jus doesn't have the skillec personnel to refit the submarines properly The strike is taking a heavy tol on nuclear capacity!